Quotes About Openness

I love improv. 'Crazy, Stupid, Love,' the script was really great, but the directors were open to letting you try different things. And that felt like a muscle I hadn't exercised in a really long time.

It's sort of what jazz would be if it stopped being snobby and what rock would be if it stopped being stupid.

I don't hide or play stupid games.

Every day, somebody has a song they want you to hear, and you're stupid if you don't listen to it because you never know what you may find.

Can we agree there are no stupid questions? Probably not. But let's try anyway.

My style is to never say no.

I have no requirements for a style of architecture.

I don't really see huge barriers between any styles of music.

Everybody in Lynyrd Skynyrd loves different styles of music, and our minds are very open when it comes to writing our songs and making the band true to what the band is, but also stepping out and doing something current.

I think that young people should embrace artists like Lemmy from Motorhead but also be open to different styles.

There are those who discredit a style or a way of playing and those who accept all the different styles.

What's needed to be appreciated about Young Zwann is that he is quite receptive to changes, always willing to learn and adapt to new styles. I am sure that given his dedication, he will manage to carve his own space in the music industry.

Initially, I was a bit shy about experimenting with my look, but now I am open to trying out various styles and am getting a sense of what would look good on me.

I tend to arrive in the rehearsal process with very strongly developed ideas about what I want to do. But I don't like those ideas to be things that are not subject to change, or subject to development, or subject to challenge.

If you don't infuse humor into a subject matter, no matter how dark, the audience can't accept the message of a film. It closes them down. Humor can open them up.

I was raised in Holland, where race and homosexuality are not a subject matter but rather a part of life.

I'm open to comments. I'm open to objective points of view, because I've been very narrow and very subjective.

In scientific subjects, the natural remedy for dogmatism has been found in research.

I love young directors who experiment with subjects. But I am definitely not choosy. I don't get that many offers to be selective.

People always think I just focus on rap, but I listen to every type of music. If I like a song it don't matter what genre of music it is. I might listen to Duran Duran, I might listen to Sublime, maybe Red Hot Chili Peppers.

I subscribe to the school that there are no dumb questions.

With Shakespeare, there's no subtext; you're speaking exactly what you're thinking constantly.

My character Lena is somebody who responds to people in a very simple way. I didn't have to take myself off to a darkened room to concentrate, I just had to try and be open. It's an interesting, subtle relationship.

It seems to me that the time for subtlety in our American life has passed.